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A major challenge will be keeping the vaccines cold in this vast, impoverished, tropical country where infrastructure is poor.

Congo President Joseph Kabila and his Cabinet agreed Saturday to increase funds for the Ebola emergency to more than £3 million.

The Cabinet also endorsed the decision to provide free health care in the affected areas and to provide special care to all Ebola victims and their relatives.

EBOLA: A HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS AND DEADLY VIRUS

The Ebola virus, also known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a disease that occurs in humans and primates.

The virus is part of the Filoviridae family, which also includes Marburg virus.

To date, scientists have identified five strains of Ebola – four of which are known to cause disease in humans.

The epidemic which swept West Africa from 2013 to 2015 left thousands dead.

Ebola was first identified by a team of scientists in The Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976.

Prior to the 2014 outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, the mortality rate of the Ebola virus had been between 25 per cent and 89 per cent – with an average of 67 per cent.

During the West African outbreak the mortality rose to 90 per cent.

The virus has an incubation period of two to 21 days, meaning symptoms can take up to three weeks to appear from the time of infection.

Early symptoms of Ebola include:

Fever

Headache

Muscle pain

Sore throat

Weakness

They are similar to those of other diseases, making diagnosis tricky in some cases.

Later as the disease progresses, it can cause:

Diarrhoea

Vomiting

Rash

impaired kidney and liver function

Stomach pain

Internal and external bleeding

Ebola outbreak declared after three people die in Democratic Republic of Congo

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